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[Koriel]

Hey Guys!

I'm Koriel, a part of a 3-person team working on our first-person puzzle-adventure game called XING: The Land Beyond. It's a passion project for us, and I would love to hear any feedback from the community here on first impressions, things to be improved, things you like/don't like.

Here is our website:
www.xingthegame.com

Go here for the demo!
http://xingthegame.com/demo.html



Backstory:

XING: The Land Beyond is a contemplative journey through the afterlife, incorporating puzzle design akin to the Zelda series, with emphasis on environment like Dear Esther and Myst. Players must keenly observe their surroundings and use their wits to progress through the serene world.

XING: The Land Beyond grants players the ability to manipulate their environment in a wide variety of ways. Players can summon rain, generate snowstorms and change the time of day to help them solve puzzles. These abilities not only create an immersive gameplay experience, but will also allow players to create their own solutions for puzzles. For example, the act of crossing a simple river can be suddenly transformed by freezing winds or torrential rain, making simple what once was impossible!

The story of XING is told through gameplay and poetry. There is no dialog, no subtitles, only elegant poetry and cryptic messages etched into stone monuments. The player must explore to find the answers they seek. Players will encounter sumptuous shrines, awesome abilities, sorrowful souls and puzzles within puzzles.

Players will be able to traverse mountains, deserts, forests, volcanoes and more in their journey through the land of XING. Standard first-person controls and a minimalist UI make the game accessible, while still engaging for seasoned gamers. Death is but another journey…

Features:

Original Score
Weather Control
3-D Environmental Puzzles
Integrated Day-Night Cycle
Dazzling 3-D Environments
Intuitive First-Person Controls
Pervasive and Penetrating Poetry
Utilizing the power of the Unreal Engine 3

Release Info:
 
Expected Release Date: October 2013
Price: $15
Platform: PC
Distribution: Steam Greenlight, GOG, Desura


LINKS

Website:
www.xingthegame.com

Trailer:




Gameplay:




Dev Blog:
http://xingthegame.blogspot.com/

Photo Gallery:
http://xingthegame.com/screenshots.html

Steam Greenlight:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=128026759

Kickstarter:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1781324918/xing-the-land-beyond

We are already funded on Kickstarter with a couple of days to go!

If you guys have any helpful comments or criticism for us, please let us know! This is our first game as a team, and we want it to be the best we can make it!  

Thanks for looking!

[bluecollarart]

This game looks great! Decrypting ciphers is one of my absolute favorite types of puzzles. I really hope you guys don't shy away from this, and make it a huge element of the game. You don't see it very often.

Can you shed any light on how you'll be incorporating the runes? Will it be something that's just for flavor, or will it be part of the gameplay/puzzle solving?

[Koriel]

We will be incorporating some encrypting, as well as some more tricky optional sections for more hard-core puzzle-adventure Gamers. The runes will be there to support game play and add flavor. We will be incorporating them into symbols and signs to read around the islands for fun, and there will also be part where you will be able to solve puzzles faster if you can decipher them.

We aren't going to make it impossible to solve without knowing the runes (that would be asking a lot from our players), but we will make it a benefit to be able to translate or have a key during the game.

I hope this answers your question!

[Koriel]

We just released our Sandbox Demo for anyone interested in trying the game out! 

http://xingthegame.com/demo.html

[SterlingDee]

Myst!

[pluckyporcupine]

We just released our Sandbox Demo for anyone interested in trying the game out! 

http://xingthegame.com/demo.html

Man, right when my gaming PC is out of commission.

I'll probably download it and back it up until I can play it and in the meantime good luck!

[Koriel]

I hope your computer feels better soon  , and thanks!